@authoremmabarry.bsky.social
Novelist, college lecturer, and former political staffer. Lives with her high school sweetheart and a menagerie of pets and children in Virginia, where she occasionally finds time to read and write. she/her https://linktr.ee/authoremmabarry
It's been such a sucky day.
CUTE!
thank you. I'm so very sad.
thank you, Elizabeth. I'm just so freaking sad that this keeps freaking happening with no end in sight.
all the hugs, Lass.
if this is accurate, then we got off very easy. and holy crap, what horrible ways we have to look at the world.
I hate it so much.
it doesn't sound like it did. still waiting on details.
same!
I'm hoping it's some kind of false alarm, but the alerts do not look good.
Nothing quite like having to text your loved ones in case they see about the active shooter on your campus to assure them that you aren't there today.
This is America.
(But also, pray for my students and colleagues.)
Narrator: The Straits, in fact, were in Dire shape.
New albums from Mitski, Noah Kahan, and Kacey Musgraves dropping in a two-month period is a sign that the universe knew I was going to have a difficult 2026.
I feel like that basically every moment of every day, lol. but yeah, send them an email.
I'd email the podcast directly. if they did send the request, they want to hear from you! and if they didn't, they'd probably want to know that AI scammers are using their name.
Every time our baby is on the verge of a nap and fighting falling asleep I’m like take the nap! Enjoy it! Enjoy every nap! Someday you’ll have to do taxes, my child!
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friends, if you are at all interested in deeply odd animal facts, you simply must listen to this podcast episode about snail sex radiolab.org/podcast/snai...
happy, happy release day, Olivia!!!
INDEED. they've identified something lots of authors feel; alas, they not only can't help you solve it, but also their product is making the entire problem worse.
One of the funniest aspects of the non-stop AI emails from "readers" who want to "help" me "market" my books is that they all say things like, "Your books lack visibility and traction," and I agree!
that, I did not know!
thank you!!! but oh, that's an obnoxious change.
when I first moved to Boston, I could get on the B line above ground going away from downtown for free (you only had to pay to go the other direction). I was **deeply** annoyed when that ended.
Boston friends, can someone confirm a quick fact for me?
When I lived in Brighton, you didn't have to swipe to get off a train/out of a station on the eastbound green line trains above ground. Is that still true?
Here, gas prices were about $2.70/gallon two weeks ago; this morning? Between $3.30 and 3.40.
Hugs and strength, everyone. Monday is Monday-ing real hard.
I'm so very sorry, Matt. I've read your work for more than 20 years. You're a brilliant critic, and you've profoundly shaped how I--and so many other people--think about movies and tV.
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
Okay, this is amazing. It also reminds me of a Joanna Bourne novel.
As far as I know, no. My branch of the family was in Texas well before then. But I will ask my uncle who got really, really into genealogy to confirm!